THINGS in Classic Quotes

1  "I don't talk things, sir," said Faber.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

2  Heredity and environment are funny things.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

3  I saw the way things were going, a long time back.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

4  "You think too many things," said Montag, uneasily.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

5  The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today.'

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

6  But that was a long time ago when they had things different.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

7  We're already doing without a few things to pay for the third wall.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

8  I feel like I've been saving up a lot of things, and don't know what.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

9  It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

10  Sometimes they just sat there and thought about things, turned things over.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

11  It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

12  You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

13  Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

14  Mildred arose and began to move around the room, picking things up and putting them down.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

15  Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

16  There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

17  Nights when things got dull, which was every night, the men slid down the brass poles, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the Hound and let loose rats in the firehouse areaway, and sometimes chickens, and sometimes cats that would have to be drowned anyway, and there would be betting to see which of the cats or chickens or rats the Hound would seize first.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander